What We Are Buying Today: Lassiq

Updated 29 November 2018
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What We Are Buying Today: Lassiq

Lassiq, which takes its name from the Arabic word for paste, is an online store based in Riyadh that supplies high-quality stickers that can be used to decorate your phone, laptop, notebook, or any other device or item.

The images offered by the shop, which delivers throughout the Kingdom, depict famous memes, favorite TV shows, characters from anime and cartoons, musicians and rock bands, and classic art such as the “Mona Lisa” and works by Vincent Van Gogh. 

Lassiq also offers designs based on the beautiful characters from the acclaimed animated films by Japan’s Studio Ghibli, including “Spirited Away,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” as well as popular book covers, space-themed sketches and pro-science stickers.

I have shopped at the store twice and received great customer service when enquiring about designs and shipping methods. I also received some free gifts. 

My MacBook Pro and I are both very happy with how much color — including some Van Gogh, Studio Ghibli and Harry Potter designs — these simple stickers have added to the grey skeleton my laptop used to be.


Vietnam police find frozen tiger bodies, arrest two men

Updated 14 February 2026
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Vietnam police find frozen tiger bodies, arrest two men

Vietnamese police have found two dead tigers inside freezers in a man’s basement, arresting him and another for illicit trade in the endangered animal, the force said Saturday.
The Southeast Asian country is a consumption hub and popular trading route for illegal animal products, including tiger bones which are used in traditional medicine.
Police in Thanh Hoa province, south of the capital Hanoi, said they had found the frozen bodies ot two adult tigers, weighing about 400 kilograms (882 pounds) in total, in the basement of 52-year-old man Hoang Dinh Dat.
In a statement posted online, police said the man told officers he had bought the animals for two billion dong ($77,000), identifying the seller as 31-year-old Nguyen Doan Son.
Both had been arrested earlier this week, police said.
According to the statement, the buyer had equipment to produce so-called tiger bone glue, a sticky substance believed to heal skeletal ailments.
Tigers used to roam Vietnam’s forests, but have now disappeared almost entirely.